Unusual Railway Line, Compton Surrey

The railway tracks here were laid to move the gigantic plaster models for the artist George Frederick Watts, in his studio in Compton. The models were then transported to Thames Ditton to be cast into bronze.

We see here Watts’s largest sculptural subjects: 'Physical Energy' completed during the last thirteen years of the artist’s life in Compton (1891-1904). They were originally modeled in the coarse plaster medium of gesso gross seen here, since clay gave Watts rheumatism.

It was cast in bronze 1904. Physical Energy was Watt's most ambitious sculpture and the three bronze casts are in Cape Town at the Rhodes Memorial, London in Kensington Gardens and in Harare.